Multiyear Performance Trends Analysis of Primary Care Practices Demonstrating Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation: An Observation of Quality Improvement Indicators among Outpatient Clinics
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Multiyear Performance Trends Analysis of Primary Care Practices Demonstrating Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation: An Observation of Quality Improvement Indicators among Outpatient Clinics
Despite the ever-changing requirements of modern policy, payers seek interventions for care delivery improvement through value-based care models. Prior research acknowledges the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) as a tool for performance and outcomes improvement. However, these studies lack empirical evidence of performance trends across medical homes. A retrospective observational study was conducted to describe national trends in National Committee for Quality Assurance PCMH recognition for more than 23 000 primary care practices across the United States from 2008 to 2017. More than half of recognized practices scored 100% pass rates for activities related to appointment availability, patient care planning, and data for population management. The most common underperforming PCMH activities were for practice team, referral tracking and follow-up, and quality improvement implementation. Study findings indicate that patient-centered care collaboration between clinical and nonclinical team members, primary care provider coordination with specialty care providers, and practice implementation of clinical quality improvement methodologies are particularly challenging activities.
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